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Acting alum Daniel Irizarry ’04 directs and performs in Class Dismissed at La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club.
Professor of Theatre and Playwriting Concentration Head David Henry Hwang will receive the Dramatists Guild’s 2025 Lifetime Achievement Award.
Writing alum Brysen Boyd ’20 and Theatre alum Fernando Buzhar Segall ’24 will have work featured in the 2025 Valdez Theatre Conference in Anchorage, Alaska.
Theatre Acting alum Kim Katzberg ’09 has locked in a Mercury Store Project Weeks Residency from May 12 to May 16, 2025.
Sam Grabiner ’21 won the 2025 Olivier Award for Best New Production in an Affiliate Theatre for his play Boys on the Verge of Tears. The highest award in British theatre comes after his 2024 win for best debut at the Stage Awards.
Associate Professor and Co-Concentration Head of the Writing for Film and Television concentration Blair Singer has secured a script commitment at Fox for a television adaptation of the bestselling novel Cold Blooded Liar by Karen Rose. Singer will write and executive produce the project.
The Tony Award winning Crossroads Theatre Company has partnered with Professor Lynn Nottage and Columbia University School of the Arts to found the annual Crossroads Genesis Prize for Playwriting Excellence.
Acting alum Ito Aghayere '12 will continue in her role as Eléna Andréevna in Conor McPherson's adaptation of Anton Chekhov's Uncle Vanya after a successful run at Berkeley Repertory Theatre. The production, which concluded on March 25, 2025 will transfer to Washington, D.C.'s Shakespeare Theatre Company from March 30 through April 20, 2025.
Directing alum Rory McGregor ’17 has joined the newest revival of Glengarry Glen Ross as Associate Director.
Directing student Miles Sternfeld has always craved bringing an unexpected moment to a musical from the canon. Now he has helped execute the biggest surprise on Broadway.
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Theatre Vinson Cunningham has been named a finalist for the 2025 National Book Critics Circle Award in the John Leonard Prize for Best First Book category for his debut novel, Great Expectations (Hogarth, 2024).
Professor of Professional Practice and Dramaturgy Concentration Head Christian Parker '98 is serving as dramaturg for the upcoming world premiere of the country musical Hard Road to Heaven.
